Spam again

[William Michael]

Most of the spam has been posted in the early morning US hours. I've been able to catch a lot of it because I'm in Europe right now, They assume nobody will see it until "work time" in the US. There's also historically been a lot of spam on weekends. It is getting zapped pretty quickly since the first crush a few days ago.

 

... haha . . . you are doing me out of a job!

Being down here, I often get to see that spam, before those folk in the USA.

FYI - 30 more just removed from "No Words" and the Users were deleted.

[HarryBaker]

NO Words forum is filling up with Korean junk this morning

[Tony Parsons]

Word of advice to Europeans - do what I do, stay abed until eleven or so, and you'll find that, like the early-morning mist, it has melted away !

[colin carron]

...and again....

 

Friday 29th

 

Yawn....

[Norman 202]

It is getting zapped pretty quickly since the first crush a few days ago.

 

it shouldn’t have to get zapped, it shouldn’t be there. new users shouldn’t be able to post so many messages without their account being approved.

 

(and the 5 photos rule as a way of approving new users is ludicrous. what if, like Vincent Peri, you don’t have the technology to scan and post, etc, but you are a new use who can contribute to the forums ?)

Edited September 29, 2017 by Norman 202

[Norma Desmond]

Glenn, can some sort of a CAPTCHA system, or some other gatekeeping or approval mechanism for new posters, be instituted so new accounts can't immediately post to forums? This is getting really bad. Is there a downside to having new accounts go through some kind of gatekeeping system in order to post? Would it be worse than the downside of the amount of SPAM we've been experiencing?

[ben_hutcherson]

We may revert to requiring people to upload 5 original photos and be approved before they can do anything in the forums.

 

Out of curiosity, when was this a requirement? It wasn't in 2005 or so when I joined, and I'd have been in trouble then too since I was only shooting film and not actively scanning.

[ShunCheung]

Before we upgraded to photo.net 2.0, spam was so bad on the original photo.net that we had added filters so that one couldn't post Chinese, Korean, etc. That was kind of an extreme approach.

[G-P]

Thank you moderators for hoping right on it - we've pinged Xenforo as to why this stuff is getting through the nets. Hope to have it resolved soon.

[Norma Desmond]

Glenn, can some sort of a CAPTCHA system, or some other gatekeeping or approval mechanism for new posters, be instituted so new accounts can't immediately post to forums? This is getting really bad. Is there a downside to having new accounts go through some kind of gatekeeping system in order to post? Would it be worse than the downside of the amount of SPAM we've been experiencing?

[Julie H]

Again, many thanks, this morning, to our incredible clean-up crew of mods. Spam threads are being deleted almost the instant they are created. Thank you!!

[Norma Desmond]

Many thanks from this quarter as well, for keeping on top of the spam removal. Glenn, can you give us an update on how the spam prevention is going? And also an update on the problem a lot of us are having posting our photos, getting the error message that the file is too large when that's not the case, which you thought may be related to new spam filters being tested. That's been going on for a couple of weeks, often necessitates four or five tries to get a photo uploaded, sometimes requiring quitting and relaunching the browser. And, yes, thanks so much again to the moderators who are diligently keeping things pretty spic and span . . . and spam free! :)